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Songs for St. Paddy

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Earle Hitchner

Updated March 17, 1999 12:01 a.m. ET

P addy Moloney doesn't give up easily. Neither does Joni Mitchell. It took a year and a half for the leader of the Chieftains to get this gifted singer-songwriter to record for "Tears of Stone," the impressive new album by the band with some of the world's leading female artists.

The song Mitchell sings is her own, "The Magdalene Laundries," first recorded five years ago on her "Turbulent Indigo" release. Two years later, believing the song deserved a second chance to be heard, Mitchell included...